Back as Picture of The Week

I think this is the first one of mine for 2017

How long can local papers survive?

Seems to me that our local free paper (The Ealing Gazette) now has an even more slimmed down operation than it did last year - news is about lots of West London and adverts not so plentiful.


Also not every week is there a letters page so I am more than usually delighted to find a picture taken by yours truly published this week - it's an oblique reference to the battle to keep Northfields Allotments from losing more of its land to residential building - very much against the spirit of the Bishop of London's land bequeath-ing generosity.

At least in some General Election good news local MP Rupa Huq who has been constant in her support of the resistance of plotholders has retained her Ealing Acton seat with a much increased majority .

Aubergines are potted and ready to plant out soon

And the beat goes on

£245 - That's the score 

Back in the Ealing Gazette and Red 15

As shown in paper and ...

Seems like quite a break on an appearance for one of my photographs in the local paper both in terms of  having a picture there and the time between submission and publication (I'm not sure if there's a guideline working here that stops the picture being 'News' as it would have been when submitted and a general readers' picture which it could be now).


The picture was of local artist and co-BEAT participant John Kaye -nice to see it, but it reminded me of why I prefer to show my own photographs' as I'm not a fan of the way it was cropped.

A more complete illustration of John

[they changed my words too -these were mine

The Ealing ART Trail (BEAT)  weekends this month  had a great range of Arts and Artists.

One of busiest venues was The Orchard Cafe and the big hit there was John Kaye (94) with his Modernist Sculptures, John's already planning his exhibition for 2017 ]

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This is another flavour of Red from local shopping centre

A Red Tent with a rather odd window detail

(Yet) Another 'Picture of the week' and Red 185

As always so very gratifying to see my photo' published in the local paper - this time it's to publicise a local Pop-Up shop at 16 Bond Street, Ealing  as a taster for September's full blown BEAT Open Studio event across the borough.

I'm looking forward to my own personal involvement and working with others.

Here's the press item and the picture submitted (which is pretty much a picture of my picture BFF).

As it appeared.

A taste of what's available from BEAT participants 

So far the people I've met connected with Arts in Ealing have been really great so I think the whole community will warm to what's going on with the BEAT project- I gather that Thursday's preview at the gallery Pop-up was fun too.

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Potentially inviting for a meal?

A local Red restaurant (with a Polish menu).

Published pictures, unravelling and 227 Red

As published

For the last 2 or three years I've been offering up pictures to the local paper (the Ealing Gazette), it's probably telling me something about the press (as is the profusion of Freebies in London I got NME this week) that I'm now submitting to the third different person - Good luck to Steve Bax who published so many of my pictures and is now moving on.

Anyway it's nice to see another of my photo's in the local paper but again the cropping is I think slightly  detrimental - but there you go (you judge) .

The shed (plot 198)  less cropped

Unravelling

It feels like a real shame that the main UK opposition party (Labour)  is not in a 'better place' as the Conservatives continue to fragment and old wounds open up in front of our eyes - there are some difficulties that could really be used to strengthen the perception of a fairer alternative.

The question is really what IDS will do now freed of collective cabinet responsibility - is he a principled (quiet) man who has been pushed too far or an incompetent about to be revealed as an inadequate head of DWP?

IDS has been shown to be a duplicitous operator before  with questions not completely satisfactorily addressed on his academic career and his expense claiming (how would he judge a benefit claimant who wanted the state to pay for his pants?), he's unlikely to surface as leader of the Right having left as something of a 'bleeding heart' but perhaps he can be part of the 'King making process' when Cameron leaves the stage?

IDS may have done us all a service in bringing (again) to public attention the continued failures of George Osborne  and upsetting David Cameron enough to reveal his own short temper in the customary(but nuanced) 'exchange' of letters.

Interesting times continue.. 

 

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It's all about the product..

And G-AWE